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100
Relic mounds are surrounded by railings and gateways covered with carved ornaments.
What are stupas?
100
A Buddhist shrine type.
What is a pagoda?
100
Japanese art relies heavily on these.
What are Buddhist and Chinese influences?
100
The term that refers to works of art and structures created in Central and South America before the arrival of Europeans.
What is Pre-Columbian?
100
Works produced by the island peoples of the South and Northwest Pacific.
What is Oceanic art?
200
Two of India's most important styles were developed between the second and fifth century CE.
What are Gandhara art and Mathura art?
200
Traditionally regarded as the highest form of art.
What is calligraphy?
200
The traditional technical methods of Japanese painting were established during this period.
What is the Nara Period?
200
Common subjects in Aztec art.
What are skulls, hearts, hands, and sacrificial scenes?
200
African people whose carvers and sculptors are considered among the finest in Africa.
Who are the Fang?
300
Material the Indus civilization used to produce statuettes.
What are steatite and limestone?
300
A graceful, overhanging roof, sometimes in several tiers, with upturned eaves.
What is a typical Chinese roof fully developed by the Han dynasty?
300
A new type of art in the form of wood-block prints that typically depicted scenes from everyday life.
What is Ukiyo-e?
300
Believed to be the source of the developments among the Maya.
Who are the Olemc?
300
The best-known examples of Ashanti wood carving.
What is akua'ba?
400
Material used to make sculptures during the Gupta Period.
What are stone, terra-cotta, and bronze?
400
The art of bronze casting of this period is of such high quality that it suggests a long period of prior experimentation.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
400
The most revered of Japanese landscapists.
Who are Josetsu, Shubun, and Sesshu?
400
The period when the Maya inscribed the “Long Count Calendar” on their monuments.
What is the Maya Classic period?
400
This type of art had an enormous impact on European artists Paul Gauguin and Max Ernst during the period of 1915 to 1940.
What is Melanesian Art?
500
Period when the Kandariya Mahadeva Temple was built
What is the Chandella dynasty (ca. 1000)?
500
The art of figure painting reached a peak of excellence in this dynasty.
What is the T'ang Dyanasty?
500
The major Ukiyo-e painters.
Who are Harunobu, Kiyonaga,Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige?
500
Toltec architecture features.
What are deep colonnades, ecorative bas-relief and sculptured structural elements?
500
This type of art were limited by strict, formal conventions peculiar to the traditions of their islandand and intended to be enduring works of art.
What are Polynesian Art?